Here’s a lesson about how government works: Public officials think they should always have a larger pot of taxpayer money, no matter how badly they have misspent, misprioritized and misused the taxpayer money they already have.

Obama expands war on political speechNew IRS rule targeting 501(c)4 organizations: Limitations will be imposed not simply on advocacy for or against a candidate for public office, but on any communication that even mentions a public official who happens to be a candidate, even if the communication occurred years ago.

The case against progressFor those who see human existence as a long march of progress it might be unsettling to think that some of our biggest achievements do not improve who we are as people.

Fund: Background checks as the new racism"Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) grilled Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, about why the 45,000 'navigators' who assist people in signing up for Obamacare aren't required to undergo a criminal-background check, even though they handle sensitive personal information."

A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare is before a federal court on Tuesday. A group of small business owners and individuals in six states is suing the federal government over an IRS regulation imposed under the Affordable Care Act, which will force them to pay exorbitant fines, cut back employees’ hours, or severely burden their businesses. The Federal District Court in Washington, DC will hear arguments on the case tomorrow; the plaintiffs’ case will be argued by Mike Carvin. > Read more

If you’re one of the millions of Americans who will visit a Wal-Mart on the biggest shopping weekend of the year, don’t be surprised if you encounter protestors agitating for “workers’ rights.”

The protestors are the Baptists in a Baptists-and-Bootleggers arrangement assembled by an outfit, Saint Consulting, where the goal, according to one company executive, “is always to kill Wal-Mart.”

And the reason the goal remains the same is because the bootlegger is not the labor movement but Wal-Mart’s competitors, who are spending millions of dollars to use these activists to throw sand into Wal-Mart’s corporate gears.> Read more > Interview Aloysius Hogan

GLOBAL WARMING & THE BOMB - MARLO LEWIS

Globalwarming.org: Skeptical Science’s Hiroshima Bomb Bombast

SkepticalScience.Com this week unveiled a downloadable app that supposedly shows how fast heat is building up in the Earth’s climate system due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The metric chosen is Hiroshima bombs. The Earth, according to SkS’s app, is warming at the rate of four Hiroshima bombs per second or 400,000 Hiroshima bombs per day.

I don’t know about you, but it sounds to me like someone is trying to tell us global warming could be the end of life as we know it.> Read more

As the federal government expanded its footprint beyond the District’s borders, it’s brought a bonanza to surrounding areas. It’s not just federal agencies. It’s also government contractors, lobbyists, trade associations... > Read more

WASHINGTON, DC - Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), released the following statement today after an announcement by Walmart that it is dramatically increasing its use of renewable energy:

“We applaud Walmart’s decision to ramp up construction of new clean energy projects nationwide, including an expanded use of solar. The company’s decision to increase its clean energy projects by six-fold puts Walmart on a clear path to become 100 percent supplied by renewable energy by 2020. This ‘lead-by-example’ approach will not only benefit the company’s 2 million associates and 150 million shoppers, but it will also significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, help the U.S. economy and stimulate American innovation. It’s a win-win for everyone, and Walmart should be commended for its leadership.”